The is a legacy geospatial utility developed by Earth Resource Mapping (now part of Hexagon Geospatial ). It was originally distributed as a free tool for compressing large raster datasets into the high-performance Enhanced Compression Wavelet (ECW) format. Status and Availability
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For GIS professionals, this was a game-changer. A raw TIFF file of a satellite image could be several gigabytes, but once converted to ECW, it could be reduced to a few hundred megabytes while retaining georeferencing data. This allowed for the rapid streaming of massive datasets over the internet or local networks. The is a legacy geospatial utility developed by